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Therapy? I needed therapy but let's face it, professional therapy costs a lot of money which I don't have and spending the additional money sent me into even worse depression than I was already experiencing. The purpose of therapy is to improve a person's total well being. Our emotional well being has a direct impact on the physical aspect of our lives. Simply put: If we have good emotional health the physical part of us will follow. I'm not saying that our emotional well being will take away all of our physical problems but it can help us deal with the pain our body is causing. When you are healthy emotionally you have more strength to battle all of the other problems life hands to you.

You don't have to pay myriads of money to a professional therapist to experience some sort of emotional well being for yourself. The best therapy is for you to find something you are really interested in and spend time enjoying that interest. This is my story of the evolution of wire wrap therapy.

My Evolution of Wire Wrapped Jewelry Therapy

I have always been interested in jewelry. I am fascinated with the design and artistic quality which jewelry brings to us. This has been a life long interest for me but only in the past year has it become my therapist.

I am a wife, mother of two adult children, and a foster parent. My own children had left the nest when I became a foster parent. My first foster child was 15 and had a family background which included much abuse of all kinds. She had experienced much emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, and herself was abusing drugs when she came to live with us. She was very angry and rebellious. She was with us in foster care for three months when she was released back into her mothers custody. Her mother took her and two of her sisters, both in other foster care homes, out of state back to where her mother had other family members.
Three months passed and her mother called me and asked if I would take custody of 'M'. I said I would and she came back to live the next 5 years of her life with us. 'M' and I seemed to click and became very close. She had stopped the drug use, was doing great in school and had finished one year of college when everything came crashing down. The last five years of my life had revolved around 'M'. I spent all the time I could making sure she got what she needed to succeed in life and leave behind her all the violence and abuse she had endured. I did this to the extent that I was neglecting my own children and their families and my husband. I'll have to admit that I had pride in the way things were going for her and patted myself on the back for being such a positive influence on her.

Then things happened in her life that brought to the surface all the prior issues with which she had not dealt and she got herself back into crystal meth, the devil's drug. I warned her that if she didn't get herself into drug rehab she would lose everything. She did, indeed, lose everything. She was arrested and charged with over 15 drug felonies. All of the things we had worked toward had been flushed down the tubes.

It was after she was arrested that I was confronted by the rest of my family about the damage the neglect done to them during my focus on 'M' had done. I was then faced with a decision. I had to let 'M' go or lose the rest of my family. I loved 'M' as though she was my own but I couldn't lose my own children for her. After weighing all the alternatives I knew I had to sever my relationship with 'M' and let her suffer the consequences of her own actions. This decision spiraled me into depression. I couldn't eat, sleep, or get my mind off of her. I tried to escape by surfing Ebay and buying all kinds of stuff. But it didn't help.......Until I ran across some wire wrapped jewelry on Ebay. I saw a piece and liked it and though to myself, 'Hmmm, I can do that!' So, off to more shopping on Ebay, only this time it was for supplies to start experimenting with wire wrapping jewelry.

That is how wire wrapped jewelry therapy came into existence. The more I wrapped the more my emotional well being was being wrapped up and tied with a great big bow as a present to myself and to the rest of my family. My mind was being shifted from 'M' to the jewelry. I began regaining some of the self confidence that I had lost. I was becoming more focused on my own family and began enjoying them and regaining a long lost relationship with them. Wire wrapping jewelry didn't cost me near as much as going to a therapist would and provided for me the best therapy around.

I fell into this by accident and necessity. You can experience the same benefits of therapy as I have buy trying to find something you have always been interested in and start focusing on that instead of your issues and problems you are having in life. You will find your emotional well being beginning to flourish and your self confidence soar without having to spend a lot of money on therapy.

Below are some links to the jewelry my wire wrapped jewelry therapy has produced. Although my links are to my Petite Elegance shop my intention is not to sell you anything other than to sell you on the benefits of self discovered therapy. Please note that this suggestion is not for the purpose of replacing any professional theraphy in which you may be involved. This is not for those who have serious emotional issues but rather for those who normally are emotionally healthy but experience a decline in their emotional health because of a crisis in their lives. This is for those who need an emotional boost without having to break the bank.